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THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 4
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Saints exhorted to be holy, sanctify themselves, and love one another—The Lord shall come and the dead shall rise.
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Furthermore</span> then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort <i>you</i> by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Philip. 4: 9.">received</a> of us how ye ought to <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> and to <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/4/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="Col. 1: 10.">please</a> God, <i>so</i> ye would <sup>d</sup><a href="1_thes/4/1d" mark="d" type="A" title="1 Thes. 3: 12.">abound</a> more and more.
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For ye know what commandments <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 1: 38.">we</a> gave you by the Lord Jesus.
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For this is the will of God, <i>even</i> your <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Heb. 12: 14.">sanctification</a>, that ye should <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Abstinence.">abstain</a> from <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/4/3c" mark="c" type="R" title="GR immorality; TG Chastity; TG Fornication; TG Sexual Immorality; TG Whoredom.">fornication</a>:
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That every one of you should know how to possess his <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Body, Sanctity of.">vessel</a> in <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sanctification.">sanctification</a> and honour;
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Not in the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/5a" mark="a" type="R" title="GR passion of lust; TG Lust; TG Marriage, Husbands.">lust</a> of concupiscence, even as the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eph. 4: 17 (17, 19).">Gentiles</a> which <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/4/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Eph. 2: 12 (11-12).">know</a> not God:
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That no <i>man</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR take advantage of, wrong.">go</a> beyond and defraud his brother in <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/6b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR the matter."><i>any</i></a> matter: because that the Lord <i>is</i> the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/4/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Thes. 1: 8.">avenger</a> of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
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For God hath not called us unto <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Uncleanness.">uncleanness</a>, but unto holiness.
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He therefore that <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/8a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR rejects, sets aside, violates.">despiseth</a>, <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 10: 16.">despiseth</a> not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/4/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Cor. 2: 10; 1 Jn. 3: 24.">holy</a> Spirit.
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But as touching <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Brotherhood and Sisterhood.">brotherly</a> love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="John 6: 45; 1 Jn. 2: 27 (20, 27).">taught</a> of God to <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/4/9c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Love.">love</a> one another.
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And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
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And that ye <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/11a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR strive, endeavor earnestly.">study</a> to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Industry; TG Labor; TG Skills; TG Work, Value of.">work</a> with your own <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/4/11c" mark="c" type="A" title="Prov. 31: 13.">hands</a>, as we commanded you;
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That ye may walk <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Dependability; TG Honesty.">honestly</a> toward them that are without, and <i>that</i> ye may have lack of nothing.
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But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Despair; TG Mourning; TG Sorrow.">sorrow</a> not, even as others which have no <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eph. 2: 12.">hope</a>.
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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 14: 5.">sleep</a> in Jesus will God bring with him.
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For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/15a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Thes. 4: 15  . . .  that they who are alive at the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who remain unto the coming of the Lord, who are asleep.">that</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Thes. 2: 2 (1-3).">we</a> which are alive <i>and</i> remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/4/15c" mark="c" type="P" title="GR precede, make progress over.">prevent</a> them which are asleep.
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For the Lord himself shall <sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Second Coming.">descend</a> from heaven with <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/16b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR a cry of command, a cheer.">a</a> shout, with the voice of the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/4/16c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Adam.">archangel</a>, and with the <sup>d</sup><a href="1_thes/4/16d" mark="d" type="A" title="Matt. 24: 31.">trump</a> of God: and the dead in Christ shall <sup>e</sup><a href="1_thes/4/16e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Resurrection.">rise</a> first:
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_thes/4/17a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Thes. 4: 17 Then they who are alive, shall be caught up together into the clouds with them who remain, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.">Then</a> we which are alive <i>and</i> remain shall be <sup>b</sup><a href="1_thes/4/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Cor. 15: 51; D&C 88: 96 (96-97); D&C 101: 31; D&C 109: 75.">caught</a> up together with them in the clouds, to meet the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_thes/4/17c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jude 1: 14 (14-16).">Lord</a> in the <sup>d</sup><a href="1_thes/4/17d" mark="d" type="A" title="Moro. 10: 34.">air</a>: and so shall we <sup>e</sup><a href="1_thes/4/17e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Immortality.">ever</a> be with the <sup>f</sup><a href="1_thes/4/17f" mark="f" type="A" title="John 14: 3; Rev. 22: 4 (3-5).">Lord</a>.
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Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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